Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon (pictured) told a CES meeting yesterday that the mobile ecosystem is uniquely protected from the Spectre and Meltdown processor flaws. “There are a few things that are unique about the mobile ecosystem,” said Amon,  “users download from an app store. On top of that, the impact you had on Android and ...

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Block & Leviton LLP, a Boston-based US securities litigation firm,  is investigating Intel  CEO Brian Krzanich’s sale of the vast majority of his Intel stock – over $39 million – on November 29, 2016. ‘Intel was aware of major security vulnerabilities uniquely affecting its processors for months prior to Mr. Krzanich’s October 30, 2017 adoption ...

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Micron and Intel are to go their separate ways on 3D NAND. They will continue to co-develop 3D XPoint. “Micron’s partnership with Intel has been a long-standing collaboration, and we look forward to continuing to work with Intel on other projects as we each forge our own paths in future NAND development,” says Scott DeBoer, ...

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After several years of close partnership, SEMI and the Fab Owners Association (FOA) have merged. Driving manufacturing efficiencies remains the overriding purpose of the FOA – where the “A” now stands for “Alliance.” With FOA’s integration with SEMI, the association will leverage SEMI’s global infrastructure and connections to over 2,000 members around the world to ...

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Toshiba has launched the RC100 series of NVMe M.2 SSDs for the retail, e-tail, system integrator, and channel markets. Utilising Toshiba’s 64-layer, 3-bit-per-cell TLC BiCS FLASH and in-house developed SSD controller in a single package, the RC100 was built to offer consumers a viable alternative to pricier high-end NVMe SSDs. In addition to affordability, RC100 SSDs ...

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CEVA has started licensing  ClearVox – voice input processing algorithms aimed at enhancing speech intelligibility and voice clarity for the CEVA-TeakLite-4 and CEVA-X2 audio/voice DSPs. Voice-enabled speakers have to cope with multi-mic beamforming, multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation and noise suppression in their products. The ClearVox algorithms cope with different acoustic scenarios and microphone configurations, including optimized ...

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Moortec, the Plymouth PVT IP company, has opened a design centre in Gdansk (pictured). It will be headed up by Moortec Design Centre Manager, Szymon Gerka. Moortec provides embedded IP subsystem solutions for Process, Voltage & Temperature (PVT) monitoring, targeting advanced node CMOS technologies from 40nm down to 7nm. “The Design Centre in Gdańsk will ...

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has written a letter to all  Qualcomm shareholders: Dear Qualcomm Stockholder, On November 6, 2017, we made a proposal to acquire Qualcomm for $70.00 per share in cash and stock, which would provide you with substantial and immediate cash value, as well as the opportunity to participate in the upside potential ...

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